girls:
8.4k births since 1993
#1779 (69th percentile)
overall:
8.4k births since 1993
#2947 (62nd percentile)
The name Galilea is the #2,947 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,397 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 61.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,779 (68.9% percentile) for all time with 8,397 births since 1993.
Galilea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (first recorded for girls in 1993).
For girls, Galilea reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 51.4% percentile (ranked #466) with 307 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 307 births per million (ranked 51.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Galilea ranks #539 for girls (43.1% percentile) with 257 births per million, which is 83.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Galilea".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Galilea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.3% confident that Galilea is pronounced as ga-lih-LAY-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GA-lih-LAY-uh, at 20.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like G AE0 L IH0 L EY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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